Computer problems

[digger]

Rolex, I'm thinking that beep sequence was actually caused by looking at porn from WV. It will also burn out your retinas. May need to get some cream if ya come into contact.




Man, I bring this on myself, don't I?


The squeak sequence you are hearing as you move from one room to the other...

That would be the front passenger side spinner on your walker. Might check that.
May need another coat of wax since ya been using it so much too.
Not the hand holds! Member what happened the last time ya did that?


J/K Bro. Glad ya got it fixed.

 

[Rolex]

digger, I'm glad you threw in your 2 cents worth, you SON OF A.......

 

[digger]

digger, I'm glad you threw in your 2 cents worth, you SON OF A.......

Love ya man!

 

[HPIguy]

Glad you got it going Rolex, sucks you had to buy a new card though.

 

[Rolex]

The squeak sequence you are hearing as you move from one room to the other...

That would be the front passenger side spinner on your walker. Might check that.
May need another coat of wax since ya been using it so much too.
Not the hand holds! Member what happened the last time ya did that?

I kept hearing what I thought was that beeping, but thanks to re-reading digger's post, I realized it was my knees creaking. I didn't realize it till I removed the spinners, waxed the walker and then tried to pick myself up at the bottom of the stairs. I forgot I wasn't supposed to do the hand holds.

Just think...If I didn't have a computer, I wouldn't have to put up with all the crap I get here.

By the way, great card! By the time I got it tweaked, it was worth all the aggravation. Amazing 3D rendering.

 

[digger]

Just think...If I didn't have a computer, I wouldn't have to put up with all the crap I get here.

By the way, great card! By the time I got it tweaked, it was worth all the aggravation. Amazing 3D rendering.

We love to give ya crap because you take it so well.
And you've got more than enough wit and intelligence to throw it back to us.
Place wouldn't be the same without ya bro.

Glad ya got your computer fixed.
I'm not a gamer, but I would like to upgrade. Mine is 4 or 5 years old. I'd like to get a flight simulator. With the one I have now I would have to cut a lot of the features off.

 

[hamz9561]

You can get a decent video card for under $100 that would just fine for almost any flight sim out there. It's the hard-core first person shooter games that are needing a lot of video horsepower.

 

[Rolex]

Forgot about that. I run the MS flight simulator and also the RealFlight G4.5 RC sim for the helis.
I never had a problem with the original card, so this one should work perfectly.
Obviously, like everything else electronic, the prices on these video cards have really come down. You can still spend 300 on some, but this one was just $80 and was the top of the line at Office Depot.

 

[flm_savage]

You can get a decent video card for under $100 that would just fine for almost any flight sim out there. It's the hard-core first person shooter games that are needing a lot of video horsepower.

I don't know man. Back in the day (2006) i was running a pair of BFG Tech 7800GTX's in SLi with a Pentium D@ 4Ghz and 2gb of corsair XMS2 ram on an Asus P5N32D and if i jacked up every available option on MS flight sim. (the latest at the time), it would cripple my system.

The system was top o the line at the time but MS still brought it to its knee's.


It played FEAR flawlessly.

 

[hamz9561]

The new King-of-the-Hill graphics cards are running almost $600 apiece and some guys are running three of them in SLI mode.

 

[flm_savage]

i paid over 500 a piece for my gtx's when they were released. Got the invoices to prove it. One from newegg and one from tiger direct. both overnighted.

 

[Rolex]

Bought a new card. ATI Radeon premium, HD 4350.
512MB GDDR2 mem and also has an HDMI 1080p connector.

Well, didn't this suck. I've been hearing a groaning in my computer, so I took it apart and checked all 3 fans. They're fine. I started leaning towards one of the back up hard drives since there are 3 HDs in it. I've had the cover off for 4 days trying to figure out where it's coming from, since it's not constant.
Today it dawned on me that I never checked the cooling fan on the Video card. It's almost at the bottom, and it's upside down. I got my finger into the fan, and sure enough, that was the bad one.
I tore out the card took apart the fan and oiled the bushing. Not a standard fan I had in stock.

A month old card, and the fan already failed. I hope it isn't a sign of things to come.

 

[RC Addict]

Sounds like a monster PC, Ralph.

 

[flm_savage]

you bought ati.....


its ok. slap a phase exchange system onto your card. done.



any returns?

BFG would have already had a new one in the mail to you. (they did for me when one started artifacting)

 

[Rolex]

I seriously considered sending it back, but decided I didn't want to waste the time waiting on a new one. I think it's exactly 30 days old now, so Office Depot would have used that excuse not to swap it out.
Once I found the problem it took less than 1/2 an hour to pull the card and do the fix. I'm back to a totally silent computer and it was NOT a hard drive so I'm not complaining.

 

[flm_savage]

oh so it came back on after you oiled it?

most excellent.

 

[Rolex]

Absolutely. Very odd fan. The only thing that held it in place inside the cage it was in, was the ring magnet. Lifted the fan off it's armature and added a micro dot of 3 in 1 to the brass bushing.
I'll be picking one up to keep in stock since I know the groaning was from the vibration in the dry bushing as it turned. That will cause some wear in there, so it's only a matter of time.
It wouldn't surprise me if it lasts a year or more.

 

[Greyryder]

A month old card, and the fan already failed. I hope it isn't a sign of things to come.

I had something similar happen with a motherboard. Couple months old, and the northbridge fan started squealing at me, every time I turned the computer on. I replaced it with a new chipset cooler.

That system is still going strong. It was only replaced due to becoming woefully outdated.